The first thing you notice is how small it is. You come in by boat across the North Sound, with the low green shapes of Virgin Gorda and the reef line in the distance, and then Saba Rock appears ahead as a single, compact island with buildings on top of it. No roads. No cars. […]
Above: Spencer and Gao sign the agreement (Photo: ABG) By the Caribbean Journal staff The government of Antigua and Barbuda has signed an economic and technical cooperation agreements with China totaling almost $10.5 million. The two sides signed the agreement Monday, with Antiguan Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer and Gao Hucheng, Vice Minister in China’s Ministry […]
Above: an industrial park in Haiti (UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe) By the Caribbean Journal staff The implementation of integrated economic zones could create as many as 380,000 jobs and 100,000 home sites in Haiti in the next two decades, according to a report from the International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank Group. The […]
Above: downtown Nassau (CJ Photo) By Mark A Turnquest Op-Ed Contributor MISSION OF THE MINISTRY OF COMMERCE My advice to the Bahamas’ Free National Movement government is to create a Ministry of Commerce without incurring any costs or expenses. Simply transfer a few existing staff from the Ministry of Finance and empower the present Minister […]
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